Cephalaria gigantea | Giant Scabious Naomi Slade flowers with silken and velvety

flowers with silken and velvety textures and flooding the garden with scent

Our natural world transforms every day and month and year

Cut back after flowering in late autumn

Perennial | Hardy

Cephalaria gigantea | Giant Scabious Naomi Slade flowers with silken and velvetyCephalaria gigantea also known as giant yellow scabious is a clump forming perennial and has big 6cm wide lemon coloured flowers that are as the name suggests, very similar to that of a Scabiosa. The basal foliage though is only about 60cm wide and bushy the word giant really comes from the tall airy stems of flowers as in my garden the clumps of foliage are only about 50 60cm high with the flowers that float above the foliage. Flowers in Summer with